Murdering and maiming children — war crimes?
Bullets in the brain, shrapnel in the spine: the terrible injuries suffered by children of Gaza
Doctors at a hospital near Gaza are almost overwhelmed by the number of Palestinian children needing treatment for bullet wounds to their heads.
Israeli television broadcast desperate cries for help from a Palestinian doctor on Friday after his children were killed [...]
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Long Retreat
We begin the long retreat. From the Final Report on Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-Level Rise
Cosmos as Hologram
Our world may have just flattened. The GEO experiment in Germany may have detected a fundamental length scale at 1e-16 m, far larger than the Planck length. Serendipitously, since they are looking for something else. This would be amazing if verified.
Job Layoff Announcements
Employers announce nearly 40,000 jobs cuts
In what’s being called “a rare move,” Microsoft is considering job cuts and may announce as early as next week, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Saks and Neiman Marcus Announce Layoffs
General Electric Co. said Friday its finance business has informed employees of layoffs, following up on previous statements that [...]
Employment Situation
Department Of Labor — Nonfarm payroll employment declined sharply in December, and the unemployment rate rose from 6.8 to 7.2 percent. Payroll employment fell by 524,000 over the month and by 1.9 million over the last 4 months of 2008. In December, job losses were large and widespread across most major industry sectors.
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CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: DECEMBER 2008
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) decreased
1.0 percent in December, before seasonal adjustment, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The December
level of 210.228 (1982-84=100) was 0.1 percent higher than in December 2007.
NOAA’s U.S. Winter Outlook Calls for Variability
With the absence of La Niña and El Niño in the equatorial Pacific Ocean this season (climate patterns that give forecasters clues about potential weather events months in advance), predicting weather patterns on seasonal timescales becomes increasingly challenging. Instead, other climate patterns over the Arctic and North Atlantic regions may play a significant role in [...]
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What is Aquaculture?
NOAA — Aquaculture – often referred to as fish farming or shellfish farming – is the art, science, and business of cultivating aquatic animals in fresh or marine waters for consumption and to supplement commercial and recreational fisheries. About 70 percent of the aquaculture in the U.S. is fresh water farming of catfish and [...]
NOAA: 2008 Global Temperature Ties as Eighth Warmest on Record
The year 2008 tied with 2001 as the eighth warmest year on record for the Earth, based on the combined average of worldwide land and ocean surface temperatures through December, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. For December alone, the month also ranked as the eighth [...]
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Fish Help Slow Global Warming With Gut Rocks
Scientists believe fish excrete lumps of calcium carbonate, known as “gut rocks,” that help maintain the ocean’s pH level.
By drinking salt water, fish ingest a lot of calcium, and they excrete more or less calcium carbonate depending on their size and the temperature of the water. “For a given total mass of fish, smaller fish [...]
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